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In the 14th and 15th centuries, one technical innovation changed European naval warfare drastically: equipping ships with heavy artillery. Contrary to popular belief, at first, not the ships of the line that would later rule the seas with imposing broadsides but rowing ships, especially galleys were the most important element of naval warfare. For almost two centuries, the galley with cannons on the bow gave ships and fortresses the shivers and conquered not only the Mediterranean, but also the North and Baltic Seas and the nearby Atlantic Ocean. In this video we investigate how the galley equipped with artillery dominated naval warfare in Europe.

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Reading list:
Warfare:
Duffy, C., Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660, Vol. 1, 1979. [ Ссылка ]
Devries, K., Douglas, R., Medieval Military Technology, 1992, [ Ссылка ].
Rogers, C.J., The military revolution debate. Readings on the military transformation of early modern Europe, 1995. [ Ссылка ]
Rogers, C.J., Soldiers' Lives through History - The Middle Ages, 2006. [ Ссылка ]
Parker, C., The Cambridge History of Warfare, 2005. [ Ссылка ]
Van Nimwegen, O., The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688, 2010. [ Ссылка ]

Fiction related to the Early modern period:
Alexandre Dumas,The Three Musketeers [ Ссылка ]
Alexandre Dumas, 20 Years After [ Ссылка ]
Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne [ Ссылка ]
Markus Heitz, The Dark Lands [ Ссылка ]

Military Si-Fi recommendations:
Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe (Series of 22 books on the Napoleonic Wars), [ Ссылка ]
Dan Abnett, The Founding: A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus (Gaunt’s Ghosts) [ Ссылка ]
Dan Abnett, The Lost: A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus (Gaunt’s Ghosts) [ Ссылка ]
Dan Abnett, The Saint A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus (Gaunt’s Ghosts) [ Ссылка ]
Glen Cook, Chronicles of the Black Company (Chronicles of the Black Company Series Book 1) [ Ссылка ]

Historiography:
Neville Morley, Writing Ancient History 1999. [ Ссылка ]
Albeit focused on ancient history, it's a brilliant book for anybody who is interested in what history actually is. Is it a story? How does it work in practise? Can writing history be objective? Is it "scientific"? What makes it a proper discipline at university?

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